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The Obama Presidency By The Numbers

"If I don't have that done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition." -Barack Obama, 2009

Two sisters denied social security numbers from government bureaucrats file suit

New York police tout improving crime numbers to defend frisking policy

New York (CNN) -- New York police on Sunday touted the impact of their much-criticized "stop, question and frisk" policy, claiming it has contributed to a spike in the number of firearms confiscated and coincided with what is shaping up to be a historically low murder rate.

This debunks the theory that immigrants want to take over the US with their numbers:

"It is widely believed that most immigrants support high immigration levels. Political parties in particular buy into this assumption, assuming that bringing in large numbers of newcomers will increase their support among ethnic voters. Research in the United States, however, suggests that this is a mistaken premise and that immigrants think immigration levels should be lowered."

Slab City...is a squatters' camp deep in the badlands of California's poorest county, where the road ends and the sun reigns. These days, their numbers are growing thanks to a modest influx of recession refugees...attracted by do-it-yourself, rent-free living beyond the reach of electricity, running water and the law. Last Free Place in America" lives up to its nickname.

Another very ancient New Year
By Jon Sandifer.
Each year on 4 February, the world’s most ancient astrology, I Ching Astrology, celebrates the New Year.
This system first formulated over 5,000 years ago in the Tibetan Himalayas uses the Chinese solar calendar.

"When I was 21, I went to an 18 and over nightclub with my best friend because he just turned 18. While I was there I met a girl that claimed to be 19 and we exchanged numbers. I hung out at her house with her mom and step-dad there - They knew how old I was and everything. We went out for about 3 months and eventually had sex two or three times. Shortly thereafter, I caught her in a lie one day - She was dating another guy too and I broke up with her."...

Part one of two part video. The claim that Iranian President said that Isreal should be wiped off the map is a deliberate mistranslation. Good to have handy when talking to people who are revved up to go to war with Iran.

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program (CLASS) was supposed to function as a self-sustaining voluntary insurance plan, but unless large numbers of healthy people willingly sign up during their working years, soaring premiums driven by the needs of disabled beneficiaries would destabilize it, eventually requiring a taxpayer bailout. Officials said they discovered they could not make CLASS both affordable and financially solvent while keeping it a voluntary program open to virtually all workers, as the law also required...